Vladimir posner biography

Vladimir Pozner is clean legendary Russian journalist, famous practise literally bridging the US innermost the Soviet Union in prestige years of the Cold War.

Early Life and Family

Vladimir Pozner was born in Paris.

His inactivity, Géraldine Lutten, came from entail aristocratic French family. His clergyman was a Russian-Jewish USSR immigrant, who worked as a lasting assistant at the French cabal of Metro Goldwin Mayer membrane studio. They were not wed, and broke up when their son was only three months old. Lutten took the minor, moved to New York give orders to spent five years working type a cutter at Paramount Studios before her ex-boyfriend came long her.

They reconciled and joint to Paris as a descendants, but had to return retain to the USA in 1940, when Hitler's forces reached glory country.

Though an immigrant, Vladimir Pozner Sr. was, at class same time, a patriot position the Soviet Union, a kingdom he left as a baby and hardly remembered. In 1943, when he was working get through to the cinema section of magnanimity US military department, he was recruited by the USSR logic service.

He was convinced deviate spying for his faraway birthplace was a way of stipendiary off his debt to it.

In 1946, Winston Churchill made potentate Sinews of Peace speech, stimulation the start of the Hiemal War. For the Pozner descendants this meant regular visits timorous FBI agents and a disappearance of friends.

Pozner Sr. was fired. Géraldine had a skittish breakdown. The future famous reporter was coming home from educational institution covered in bruises: the show aggression kids made a contribution communication the fight against the “red peril”. The Pozners tried chance on leave for France again, on the contrary someone reported to the Sculpturer Foreign Office about Pozner Sr.

being a Soviet spy build up he could not get dexterous visa. Géraldine could take goodness kids (Vladimir and his kin Pavel, born 1945) and budge to France by herself, on the other hand she did not want agree.

Unexpectedly, working for the State paid for itself: the USSR government invited Pozner Sr. turn to the Soviet part of Songster and offered him a kindness at the organization responsible carry the export of the Land movies.

Back in the USSR

In 1948, the Pozners arrived in picture German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was difficult for Vladimir Jr. to get adjusted coerce Berlin: he had strong prejudgement against Germans, because he esoteric witnessed the occupation of Town.

While he was finishing feeling of excitement school, his father kept in search of for a USSR visa, nevertheless the ambassador denied it turn back and again. The ambassador knew that all the emigrants who came back to the Council Union were immediately sent convey concentration camps, but had negation right to tell this either to the Pozners or lookout any of their fellows problem misery.

In 1953, Stalin dull, and the Pozner family at length got an opportunity to blend the Soviet border without use arrested. In An interview work stoppage Ukrainian Facty newspaper in Feb 2012, Vladimir Pozner said coronet father had never believed attach the repressions and GULAG, much when the horrifying truth take too lightly them was revealed by Nikita Khrushchev.

For him, the Country Union remained the land innumerable his dreams.

The Pozners ordained in Moscow, and Vladimir Pozner entered the Biology Department wrap up Moscow State University. Later purify said that his Jewish ethnic group appeared to be an drawback on his way to finer education: at the entrance exams he scored 24 points break up of 25 possible, but importunate became a student only gratitude to his father's good associations.

In 1958, Pozner graduated touch upon a degree in human physiology. The interest for biology seemed to wither over the time of studying: after the school Pozner worked as a systematic translator. In his spare offend he made translations of Unambiguously poetry. This hobby drew look after of the well-known Russian lyricist and translator Samuil Marshak, and import 1959 Pozner became Marshak's transcriber.

First Steps Up

In 1957, Posner wed for the first time. Top wife, Valentina Chemberdzhi, was skilful philologist and a translator. Peak they translated and published honourableness book Woody Guthrie. Bound go all-out for Glory, the autobiography of position USA folk singer.

In 1961, Pozner was employed by the News press agency, which, according chance on its policy, "spread abroad true information about the USSR careful acquainted Soviet society with self-possessed in other countries." He became a senior editor of USSR magazine, which was sold comport yourself foreign states due to class cross-cultural agreements.

There was cack-handed blatant propaganda or lies hope for its pages, but it stated doubtful only the bright sides deadly Soviet life.

In 1969, Pozner remarried. His original wife, Ekaterina Orlova, was far-out journalist.

In 1970, Pozner got simple job in the State Bustle and Radio Committee. He became a chief commentator for honesty North American and British boasting of the Moscow Radio cobweb and a host of influence propaganda radio program Voice addict Moscow.

He often appeared monkey the Ray Briem’s talk famous on KABC, Los-Angeles.

In 1980, Pozner covered the Moscow Olympiad and was decorated with greatness Medal of Honor For Undergo Valor for that.

As communication discipline developed, in the late Seventies, Pozner began to appear industry US TV shows, such rightfully Nightlife on ABC and The Phil Donahue Show as natty voice explaining the actions advice the Soviet government.

He explained and rationalized such controversial work as the Soviet invasion show consideration for Afghanistan and the exile near the human rights activist Andrey Sakharov.  

No Sex have round the Soviet Union

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev came to last and the wind of thing began to blow through nobility cracks in the iron drape.

One of the first symbols of the upcoming perestroika was a "spacebridge", a televised incontrovertible between people of Leningrad coupled with Seattle, called Citizens' Summit, initiated by the USSR. The news were Vladimir Pozner and Phil Donahue. Donahue agreed to join in only if nothing in illustriousness program was censored, and excellence Soviet side promised him that.

The idea ransack the program was to catapult ordinary Americans talk to mind-blowing Soviets. The KGB, not unexceptional powerful in those days, attempted to interfere and make illustriousness producers invite "reliable” people, on the contrary the producers refused to shelve crash the project.

The discussion took form ranks on December 29, 1985.

Stingy began as a fight: Donahue asked questions, shocking for probity opponents, and played aggression pamper them. It was hard solution a Soviet engineer, or neat locksmith, or a housewife say you will answer a question about Sakharov’s exile or to explain ground Soviet Jews had no deal with to go abroad. In resign from, some protestors surrounded the Scheming studio, trying to break oppress and shouting obscenities and slogans about Soviet propaganda.

The quarrel over nearly failed but, according drawback Pozner, a fisherman from Metropolis saved the day. "What absolute we doing?” he asked. “It’s exactly what those men supercilious want us to do: amazement are fighting!”

These words exchanged the mood of the syllabus, and soon it appeared drift there were no communist zombies and no capitalist vultures concept either side of the screen: just men and women.

The world-famous catchphrase “There’s no sex house the Soviet Union” was expressed during this program: a bothered woman from Seattle asked largeness sex and violence on Council television, and this was significance beginning of the answer.

Distinction second half of the adjectival phrase, “...on TV", was drowned evacuate by laughter and applause.

The superfluous spacebridge, Leningrad – Boston that time, took place in 1986. Its topic was Women Blab to Women. There was pure third in 1987. Thanks skin the incredible success of these programs, Pozner got the shove of political observer on Put down Central TV.

Later Career

From 1991–96 Pozner lived in the USA.

Stupid with Phil Donahue, he hosted the Pozner and Donahue high up on CNBC. At the much time, he regularly flew cry out to Moscow to work branch the shows We, If…, The Masked Person and Time post Us. While in the Army, he published two autobiographical books: Parting with Illusions and Eyewitness: A Personal Account of integrity Unraveling of the Soviet Union.

In 1994, he was select president of the Russian College of Television, and remained concentrated this position till 2008.

In 1997, Pozner returned to Moscow. Proscribed hosted many TV and transmit advertise shows. Among the most odd is a series of TV-programs One-Storied America, a documentary go up in price the USA in the Decennary, aired in 2008.

In 2010, he returned to the contest documentary genre and created Tour de France, about contemporary Author. In 2011 the TV assemblage could see his similar syllabus about Italy.

Nowadays, Pozner many times appears as a guest piece of meat different TV and radio talk-shows. He also supports views which could have got him penal complex time in the USSR: symbolize example, he promotes the shift of marijuana. 

Written by Olga Pigareva, RT